I have to wonder how much of this "it gets good at episode xxx" is just a subconscious sunk cost fallacy. Granted, it probably does get good at episode xxx for anyone who likes the show enough to watch up to episode xxx because everything they like about the show is building on itself over the course of hundreds of hours. You'd have to be a truly incompetent writer to not get some sort of entertaining payoff with all that setup time.
One Piece gets good bro you just gotta hold out until episode 867 then it gets good it's worth the wait I swear don't quit now you only have 866 episodes to go
Either you have a pussy or are a pussy. Shonen is timeless and boundless, shame it got pozzed super hard by modern trends.
I was very impressed with the anime.
This was always a bad one because One Piece is good from the start. Hell, Berserk would be more applicable because it’s 3 volumes before you even get to the arc everyone likes, and that doesn’t even pick up until volume 6.
Isn't that literally every shonen OVA/film? They always put a new girl as the hook and discard her to not piss off shippers.
It's so bad you can literally jump to the penultimate chapter at any point from any chapter of the manga with just as much plot context. The entire part 2 was just a rollercoaster of nothing happening and then crazy shit happening with no real cast.
Problem is that Tenchi is a harem anime, and as autistic as it sounds, that's the male equivalent of romanceslop. Bringing in Sakuya fucks with the chemistry of all the existing relationships, pissed off all the girls, and in the end even if you for some reason liked Sakuya as a viewer she fucks off and stops existing so there's no payoff. Tenchi in Tokyo was just a poorly thought out waste of time.
That's not exactly a suicide though. It's more like
Still, nearly all shonen have an harem. You have discarded potential love interests in Bleach, Naruto, One Piece and Pokemon films. And all those films are a waste of time just to see some nice set pieces
my boy rock lee is not a waste of time, you big nose
Was there a Naruto film worth watching besides the epilogue one? I only remember the first one with that movie actress princess that didn't have Rock Lee, though I have vague memory of each film ending with Naruto pulling out some new variation of mcguffin Rasengan against the villain.
The Last is too stupid for me. Both with the sequel escalation and learning Kishimoto aged them up an extra two fucking years because he wanted them to be legal when they finally entered a relationship.
I'll put it in my backlog. The Last is admittedly retarded, especially for someone that didn't read Shippuden, but I can't help to be happy that the show ended with most characters having a relationship and children. Unlike most shonen that are too scared of committing their characters so it ends up that the characters being 30 with no kids.
